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• State Trooper Jobs Lost In DHS Hole.   "DHS can't balance a checkbook, and we're being left out in the dark," said Jeff Leighty, president of the officers' association.   [Why is it police jobs that get shorted first when funds are short? Is this REALLY necessary or just a bid to pump the public for more taxes?]
• Log Cabin Republicans Prepared to Support Senator Smith In Next Race.   [24th paragraph down. (Homosexual publication)]
• DeFazio Will Donate Abramoff Funds Tied to Tribes.
• High-Ranking Officer Fatally Shoots Driver.
• KITZHABER Pushing for Health Care Ballot Measure.
• Willamette Education Service Dist. Employees Rally for Salary Increase.
• Portland Widens Inquiry of PGE's Taxes, Trading.
• PGE Expects Its POR Ticker Will Soon Join NYSE Ranks.
• Bend:   Pastor Arraigned In Sex-Abuse Case.
• Multnomah County:   Diane Linn to Include $5-M In Proposed Budget for Schools for Claimed Loss of Income Taxes Ending in Summer.  
• Mayor Potters Carl Rove?   Nancy Hamilton, Chief of Staff is, according to the Oregonian, the mayor's intellectual consigliere, editing, articulating and protecting his vision.
• Opinion:   Emission-Control Pan Is An End Run Around Voters.
• Anti-Alcohol Pledge Not Supported By All Parents.
• Lake Oswego Resident Calls for a Recall of Entire City Council.
• Marion County:   State Officials Plan Medicare Meetings.
• Leaker or Whistleblower:   Bush critics are entitled to their opinions about the program and leak investigation. But they're not entitled to their own facts.   (Dave Reinhard, Oregonian)
• Deputy Frees Man from Burning Truck.
• Portland:   City Doubles Its Pledge In Farm's Land Purchase.
• Gresham Sees Four Homicides in 2005.
• Clackamas County:   Homicide Count Doubles In 2005 with 10 Killings.
• Hillsboro:   County Sees Homicides Drop In '05.
• Eugene:   New Pedestrian Law On Books -- Some Don't Believe It Will Be Followed.
• Should Neil Bryant Have Disqualified Himself from the OHSU Board Over a Joke?     Bryant Spoke the Truth, Absolutely Not!
• Beaverton:   Somali Refugee Immigrant Children Have Never Held a Book Less Much Know English.   During lunch at Fir Grove, foods that contain pork are labeled with a picture of a pig. Most Somali Bantus are Muslim and do not eat pork. Roughly 5,000 Somali refugees live in the Portland area; most of them arrived within the past year and a half.
• Final Candidates for Cornelius Job Will Field Questions.
• Clark County, WA:   Deputy Fired for Attending Party with Underage Drinkers.
• Clark County Hits Six-Year High as 20 Homicides Reported.

National News:

• Bush Defies RINOs, Dems In Congress In Filling Defense, Foreign Policy Posts.   One appt. a fierce anti-terrorist advocate slammed by liberals for his criticism of U.S. media & gov't of Qatar for cooperating with Al-Jazeera in showing gruesome battlefield footage obtained by Arab TV channel in Iraq. AP fails to mention that Clinton & other presidents also used same method to make appts. in-between sessions.
• Patty Murray Has No Intentions of Giving Up $40,000 of Abramoff $$.   (King County Journal)
• Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D) Has No Plans To Return $42,000 Abramoff Tribal $$.
• Abramoff Tribal Clients Donated Thousands to Washington State Lawmakers.   (Seattle Times)
• Illegal Alien Workers Nabbed In New Orleans.   All possess counterfeit ss cards & IDs.
• Using the 'M' Word Instead of Civil Unions; Why Even the So-Called 'Conservative' Andrew Sullivan Is Doing It.   [You don't want to be out of the loop do you? Homophobe?]
• Some Parents Complaining; Toddler's Talking Elmo Book Asks 'Who Wants to Die?'
• A Clinton Fund-Raising Group Fined $35,000 for Understating $700,000 In Gifts.   (NY Sun)
• NY:   Emotions High as Quinn Becomes First Female, Openly Lesbian Speaker.   (NY Sun)
• Snohomish County, WA:   Democrats Waste No Time Switching to Mail-In Elections.
• Howard Stern's Daughter Abruptly Pulls Out of Naked Broadway Show.   Stern had been against her doing the part. Show publicist Penny Landau said: "Here is Howard Stern afraid of people doing to his daughter what he does to other people's daughters. She left us high and dry. Now how is she going to get other parts?"   (NY Post)
• Priest:   Howard Stern Ads Disrespectful.
• CO:   Denver Police Enlist Crime Scene Investigation Volunteers.   Chief says will free cops to tackle urgent calls. 390 residents have signed up. (Rocky Mountain News)
• NY Post Reports NY Billionaire Wilbur Ross Knew of W VA Mine Safety Problems.
• Fired Bush Basher On Hannity/Colmes Blaming Bush for W VA Mine Disaster.   (Article from old CBS report blaming Bush administration for whitewashing safety problems in mines). Anti-corporation, anti-Bush political rhetoric may permeate this tragedy.
• NewsMax Reports On Jack Spadaro Accusation that Bush to Blame for W VA Mine Disaster.
• The Girlie-Man Approach to Economics.   (Ben Shapiro)
• NY:   1,000s Hit By Ghoulish Body-Parts-Snatching Scandal.   Some patients have tested positive for hepatitis & syphilis after receiving bone transplants.   (NY Post)
• Judge Accused of Masturbating On the Bench Will Now Rise as a Defendant.   A court reporter kept the judicial activities to herself for some time. However, she had a camera and...   (NY Post)
• Two New People Join Ward Churchill Review Panel.   Out-of-state scholars replace pair who had praised prof's work.
• Liberals Seek to Choose GOP Candidate.   (The Conservative Voice)
• CO:   Bevy of Bills Target Immigration Issues.   But GOP, Dems show little sign of working together on initiatives.   (Rocky Mountain News)
• Pledge Gets Woman Out of Jail.   BUT, she didn't mean it. Now what? Was unrepentant walking out the courthouse door. Said she will complain to "the attorney general, the FBI, Congress and the White House." She said she agreed to dismiss her lawsuits only under duress.   (Rocky Mountain News)
• CA:   Another Female Teacher (41) Has Sex with 14-Year-Old Boy.
• Family Friendly Issues Fared Well In 2005 Courts, Says Focus on the Family.
• Trinidad Sex-Change Surgeon 'Critical.'
• CO Headline:   Unborn Baby Dies In Crash.   Mother in critical condition; driver of stolen car arrested.
• SD:   Woman Admits to Throwing Away Newborn.
• Jobless Claims Plunge to Five-Year Low.
• Rep. Harman Send Bush Letter Feigning Bush Didn't Keep Congress Informed Enough.   Responding in writing to Harman, House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said Harman had never previously raised concerns about the number of people briefed on the program. "In the past, you have been fully supportive of this program and the practice by which we have overseen it," he wrote. "I find your position now completely incongruent."
• Ex-U.S. Secretaries, Bush to Discuss Iraq.
• I Don't Know Gender Barbie Doll Irks Parents.
• Documentary Claims LBJ Knew Cubans Killed JFK.
• NBC Affiliate Drops 'Anti-Christian' Show 'Daniel.'
• Judgment Day for Republicans.   (Joseph Farah).
• Setting the Record Straight.   Critics Launch Attacks Against Program To Detect And Prevent Terrorist Attacks

National/International News

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• BORDER WAR CRISIS, EVER MORE VIOLENT.   (CBS News)
• IRAQ:   100 Killed In Latest Suicide Bombing; Roadside Bomb Kills Five U.S. Soldiers.
• International Demand Fuels Coal Market.
• Iraq Buys ! Million Tons U.S. Wheat for 2006-Grain Board.
• Honolulu:   400 Marines, Sailors to Be Deployed for Afghanistan for Second Tour.
• Indian Newspaper Expresses Concern Over Replacing U.S. Troops with Internat'l Troops In Afghanistan.   ... Still, some experienced and knowledgeable Afghanis worry that the international security force will be just that — a policeman who doesn’t go looking for trouble. The U.S. forces, by contrast, continued to target insurgents and Al Qaida with military strikes, keeping them at bay in the hills and providing some level of stability to Afghani communities that are rebuilding.   (Kashar World News)
• MICROSOFT BLOCKS CHINESE DISSIDENT'S BLOG.   Company says it's complying with communist nation's laws.

International News:

• Sharon Gravely Ill after Massive Stroke, 7 Hours Surgery.
• 23 Killed In Mecca Hotel Collapse.
• In CHINA, the Jolt of a Life and a Death.   China executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined.   (Internat'l Herald Tribune)
• Gang Terrorizes Train In France.   Thought to be N. African immigrants. Terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery & sexual assault on New Year's Day.   (Washington Times)
• 100 Journalists Protest Chinese Censorship Following Gov't Crackdown.   Local officials reportedly hired thugs to break up the protest and six villagers died from beatings. Two officials were later arrested after other newspapers and the electronic media picked up the story.   (Internat'l Herald Tribune)
• Leaked Intelligence Report -- Iran Seeks Data On Nuclear Weapons for Atomic Bombs.   (Washington Times)
• Afghan Blast Kills 10 During Envoy's Visit.
• Chili:   Another Secret Grave Discovered On Cult Grounds...   where opponents to the nation's 17-year dictatorship may have been buried after being tortured & killed during rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
• Netanyahu Misunderstands Italian Businessman's Joke As Real Job Offer.
• 1/3 Netanyahu Asks Partymen to Quit Sharon Gov't.
• 1/4 Netanyahu:   Pre-Disengagement Warnings Are Coming True.   "We cannot fight rockets with a 'bang-bang-and-it's-over' approach," Netanyahu told the Likud supporters in the Knesset Tower Hotel.
• Netanyahu:   'Time for Israel to Wake Up.'
• Netanyahu to Likud MKs: Keep Hands Off of Sharon's Health, Kern Scandal.
• Sharon Took Credit for Netanyahu Bank Share Transfer Plan.   He also thanked Netanyahu's replacement, Ehud Olmert for conducting negotiations which Netanyahu had arranged for several months before resigning.
• Olmert Thanks Netanyahu for Not Quitting Gov't Yet.
• Netanyahu Misunderstands Italian Businessman's Joke As Real Job Offer.
• 1/3 Netanyahu Asks Partymen to Quit Sharon Gov't.
• 1/4 Netanyahu:   Pre-Disengagement Warnings Are Coming True.   "We cannot fight rockets with a 'bang-bang-and-it's-over' approach," Netanyahu told the Likud supporters in the Knesset Tower Hotel.
• Netanyahu:   'Time for Israel to Wake Up.'
• Netanyahu to Likud MKs: Keep Hands Off of Sharon's Health, Kern Scandal.
• Sharon Took Credit for Netanyahu Bank Share Transfer Plan.   He also thanked Netanyahu's replacement, Ehud Olmert for conducting negotiations which Netanyahu had arranged for several months before resigning.
• Olmert Thanks Netanyahu for Not Quitting Gov't Yet.

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• Willamette Weekly Says Sen. Smith Has Taken Tribal $$ and Some Dubious Trips Funded by Lobbyists...   and has been strangely quiet during Capitol Hills' current hubbub over super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
• Taxpayer Academy Awards Live On Victoria Taft TONIGHT.   Wed., Jan. 4, 6-9 PM on KPAM. Listen over Internet if not on your radio. ALSO, LOOK AT LATEST DIGNITY VILLAGE INFO & PHOTOS. Taxpayers getting snookered again.
• Salem Journal's Online Readers Say Job Qualifications Matter More Than Diversity.   (This is in response to article on Kulongoski's intent to acquire gov't staff reflecting more affirmative action.
• Statesman Journal Editorial:   Kulongoski Diversity Hypocritical, Too Many White Males.   "But when it came to appointing people to state positions, his actions didn't match his words. He initially appointed a preponderance of white men, as if they were the only ones who could handle state jobs."
• Liberal 20s/30s to Convene On Mt. Hood for Political Conference.   Called 'Rebooting Democracy,' sponsored by the Bus Project, recruited thousands of young activist for door-to-door canvassing, voter-registration drives and political-pressure campaigns conducted via e-mail.
• Challengers Fault Gov. for State Agency's Shortfall.
• State Trades Council Endorses Kulongoski.
• Sen. Smith Will Return or Donate Any $$ Tied to Abramoff.
• Left-Wing Ex-Congressman Dies at 86.
• Ex-Congressman's Legacy Includes 33-Year Battle to Remove Christian Cross.
• Salem-Keizer School District Budget Guide Available to Public Online.
• Family of Slain Man Sues Portland Police.
• Deaths, Drunken-Driving Arrests Up from Last Year's Holiday Weekend.
• Clackamas Sheriff's Office Names Sergeant Who Killed Attacker In Self-Defense.
• Salem Senior-Center Plans Shown at Forum.
• OR Gas Prices Sixth Cheapest In Nation.
• Salem Municipal Judge to Retire.

National News:

• Pittsburgh Steeler Star, Lynn Swann Declares Candidacy for PA Gov.   Will be a GOP candidate.
• U.S. Supreme Court Orders Padilla Transfer Sought By Bush.
• W VA:   Joy Turns to Grief at Mine.   All but one have died.
• MILITARIZE BORDER NOW!   Joseph Farah.
• Dover School Board Rescinds 'Intelligent Design' Policy.
• CO RINO Fed Up With Conservatives Who Are Fed Up With RINOs.
• CO:   Retiring RINO Lawmaker Would Like to See Woman Replace Her.
• RI Legalizes Medical Marijuana.
• Prosecutors Decry DeLay's Court Procedures.   [Claim DeLay's wanting to exercise his right to a speedy trial purely political].
• NJ:   GUN CASE Pits Judges Against NJ Lawmakers.
• Michael Savage News Page.
• NYC:   Openly Lesbian, Christine Quinn (D), Poised to Become City Council Speaker.   Supporters at the senior center at Our Lady of Pompeii Church think it's terrific.
• Boston:   200 File New Claims Against Archdiocese.
• Bush Renews Push for Patriot Act.
• Rap Star, Obie Trice Shot In Head Driving On Freeway.   Police looking for info, but "But don't count on Trice coming forth with any more details. "He's a shy person," Askew told the News. "He's decided he doesn't want to say anything about it." (Askew is Trice's grandmother).
• U. of CT Research Study Concludes Obvious:   Alcohol Ads Trigger Young Adults' Drinking.
• Spokane, WA Swears In New Mayor to Replace Ousted James West.
• FL:   Orange County Judge Abruptly Hands In Resignation to Gov. Bush.
• Three States Supreme Courts Deciding On Same-Sex Marriage.   WA, NJ & NY. (This is a homosexual news web site).
• Couple Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Decide If 'Mootness Rule' Allows Unlawful Sales of Homes By Bankruptcy Trustees, and Deprives Homeowners of Rights During Appeal.
• FL:   Female Corrections Officer Accused of Sex Attempt With 16-Year-Old Boy.   Officers has confessed to the incidents.

National/International News

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The President's Iraq National Strategy

• U.S. Bombs Suspected Enemy Hideout.
• America's Porous Border Enables Mexico's Misrule.
• "Democrats" for Jihad.
• Western Embassies, UN Order Personnel Out of Gaza.   "The only Westerners left in Gaza are peace activists who believe that the Palestinian factions will defend them. Instead, they have become the target of some of these factions." [Gee, Palestinian terrorists are no more grateful for the peaceniks than Zarqawi's bunch. Who would have guessed?]

International News:

• Palestinians Enter Egypt After Border Smash.
• Sharon's Condition Worse Than Originally Reported -- Suffered Cerebral Hemorrage.    Sharon Rushed to Hopital for 2nd Time.
• Sharon Rushed to Hopital for 2nd Time.
• Israel:   Police Say Evidence Linking Sharon to $3-M Bribe.   Expected storm of reaction from opponents calling for resignation.
• UK:   Trever Phillips, Racial Equality Chair, Repeats Accusations that Universities Too "Disproportionately White."
• China:   Yuan Rises to New High vs. Dollar.
• Russia, Ukraine Clinch 5-Year Deal On Gas Supply.
• GAZA:   Palestinian Militants Storm Election Office.   Follows arrest of militant suspected on kidnapping 3 Britons last week.
• Afghanistan:   Militants Behead School Headmaster In Front of His Children.
• Israeli Newspaper Prints Terrorist-Defending Ads.   Calls for convicted murderer's release, claims he'll bring 'peace.' [Israel has it's own treasonous media just like the U.S.]
• IRAQ:   Suicide Bomber Kills 32 At Funeral.
• Bolivia Pres.-Elect Pledges United Fight with Chavez/Venezuela Against "Neoliberalism and Imperialism."
• China Frees Journalist One Year Early.   Had reported about corruption in Chinese gov't. Sentenced to 6 years. Possible good-will gesture prior visit to U.S. by Chinese Pres.
• Iran Gov't Shuts Down Newspaper, Magazine.
• Argentina Repays $9.57-B Debt to IMF.
• Where Europe Gets Its Gas.   60% produced by themselves, 90% of remaining 40% from Ukraine. (according to BBC)
• Palestinians Arrest Fatah Terror Chief In Kidnapping of British Family.

• Kulongoski Appointments Reflect Affirmative Action.
• Drop Your Brains. Here's Another University Study Concluding More Gov't Control Needed to Protect a Species & Curtail Not Only the Logging Industry, but Fishing.   Century old feathers can't lie, can they?
• Cougar Plan Focus of 2-Day Meeting.   Begins Thursday.
• Papers Cast Light on Steve Goldschmidt Firing.   Portland schools -- Newly released documents show how the high profile conflict ended at taxpayers' expense.
• The Daily Astorian Editorial Pushing for Stealing Kicker Funds and Having Kitzhaber Fix Health Budget/Spending Problems.   [Over the past few weeks major newspapers have been hitting on the kicker as evil and pro-corporation. Expect liberal legislators to look for any excuse to take from the kicker when it re-convenes. They and willing accomplices in the media are stacking up claimed crisis in advance.]
• Kulongoski Helicopters Over Flooded Areas.
• Boise Cascade to Bring Back 70 Employees.
• Eugene School Fires Likely Arson.
• Salem Residents Want to Revive 42-Year-Old Sister-City Bond with Salem, India.
• Community Services Claiming Assistance Funds Already Draining Only Two Weeks Into Winter.   [Precursor to asking for tax spending programs].
• Anti-War Activist, Former Hostage, Wants to Tell a Different Iraq Story.

National News:

• KING KONG, Supporter of Evolution Theories.
• Jack Abramoff Will Plead Guilty to Fraud.
• Divorce TX Style -- Wife Surprises Husband By Running Against Him In Dem Primary for Congress.   No Republican has filed.
• Dan Rather Touts "First Husband" Opportunity for Bill Clinton.
• NY:   Republican Challenger to Hillary Blasts Clinton Terror Record.
• Cox Probably Won't Challenge Hillary.
• Brokaw, Koppel Push Bush to Move Left & Raise Taxes.
• Ex-Lawmaker Files to Run Against Tom DeLay.
• TIMES WATCH Quotes of the Year by Liberal Media.
• Women's Group Claims Women Feel Shut Out of Alabama Politics.
• Hal Lindsey Gone from TBN -- Says Network Tried to Muzzle Views On Radical Islam.
• GOP Road to White House May Begin In TN.   Southern Republican Leadership Conference will meet March 9-12.
• State Legislatures Confront Pressing Issues in 2006.   Recently released its "top-ten issues forecast" for 2006.
• Navy Chaplain 'Starves' Himself Over Navy-No-Jesus Zone.   In day 15.
• FL:   ILLEGALS THREATEN CLOSURE OF EMERGENCY ROOMS.
• New Year's Eve:   Bullet Falls from Sky Into Woman's Face.
• TX:   Border Crackdown Working Where It Is Used.
• TX:   Republican, Strayhorn, Running Against Gov. Perry As an Independent.
• FL:   Legislators Fear Voter Backlash Over Rising Cost of Gov't Fees.
• Some S. Florida Latina Converting to Islam for Emphasis On Family, Women's Roles.   [Is this the only way they feel is left to them to avoid the ravages of the anti-family womens' lib movement in America?]
• Washington Post Portrays Voters as "Ambivalent" On Immigration.
• NH:   Alleged Santa Claus Flasher Arrested Again Near School.
• Animal Rights Activist Legally Changes Name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

• European Visitors Drawing U.S. Scrutiny.
• Canada:   Toronto Gun-Related Homicides Nearly Double In One Year.   Who are many Canadians blaming instead of their own anti-gun laws?
• Sustainable Energy Coalition Issues Second Set of Five So-Called "Factoids" In Eliminating Present Forms of Energy Usage.  

International News:

• Abbas-Linked Group Involved In Suicide Blast.
• UK:   Investigation Into Immigrations Officials Trading Sex for Visas.
• Italian Judge Orders Priest to Prove Christ's Exists.
• British Leader Says Too Many Whites at UK Universities.
• Report Renews Old Accusations of Sharon Family Taking $2.2-M Bribe from Austrian Financier.
• Iraq's Oil Minister Says Resignation Because of Gas Price Increases.   He's been replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi.
• Bolivia's Pres.-Elect, Evo Morales, Due to Meet Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez Before 1/22 Inauguration.   Visited Castro last week.
• SHARON to Transfer Power During Heart Procedure.
• Pakistan Denies Plan to Purchase 6-8 Nuclear Reactors from China.
• Growing Anger Over Islamic Cartoons.
• International Efforts Underway to Resolve Russian/Ukraine Gasline Dispute.
• Russia Under Fire Over Politically Charged Gas Dispute.
• Israel Bracing for Increased Terrorism After Groups Call Off 'Calm.'
• International Caviar Trade Banned.
• Palestinians Find New Smuggling Routes after Gaza Closure.
• Kalinganager, India:   Tribal Protest Steel Mill Deaths.   Police vs. arrows.
• France:   Parliament Approves Chirac Sponsored Airline Tax to Fund HIV/AIDS Programs.
• Woman Gives Birth on Airplane Lavatory.
• Experts Saying Global Warming Not the Reason for Australian Heat-Wave.
• Canada:   Didn't Your Mother Tell You...   not to play with a loaded gun when on the toilet? If not the Candadian Royal Mounties will. Here ye, here ye.

• Taxpayer Academy Awards Nominations.   Jan 4th ceremony to air live on the Victoria Taft Show, KPAM 860 AM. (Can listen over the internet in areas where not on the radio).
• Court Gives Juries Resentencing Authority.   Ruled asking juries to consider new sentences for already-convicted criminals does not violate the constitutional ban against being tried twice for the same crime.
• State Will Meet One Voting Deadline, Miss Another.
• Traffic Stop Leads to Arrest of a Deschutes 'Most Wanted' Person.
• Sen. Wyden, Democrats Won't Say Why Against Democracy.   Why did he stop vote condemning Iranian leader's speech?
• Holiday Closings Today.
• Deadline Looming for Environmentalists Hoping to Prevent Expansion on Tryon Farm Land.
• Age Requirement for Powerboat Card Rises to 50.
• New State Law Bans Use of Tobacco On School Property.
• Polk County:   Health Officials City Highly Contagious Norovirus as Source of Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreak.
• Springfield Commissioner Favors Law Forcing Lifejacket Law, But Tide Against Such a Law.
• Increased Access Approved for Hunters In NE Corner of State.
• Voters Should Have Say In New Emissions Standards.   (Opinion)
• Portland Mayor Bob Potter Gives Himself a "B."
• Oregon Editors, Broadcasters Vote On 2005 Top Story.
• Politics Heating Up In Oregon.   Kitz "practicing the art of being coy" & has ammunition to use against Kulongoski in primaries with an ailing Human Services budget.
• Kulongoski Spokesman Says Radical Action, Over $170-M DHS Budget Shortfall, Should Be Avoided.
• Oregonian Asso. Editor thinks he knows what Oregonians need to do in 2006.   One thing he wants to do is get rid of the Kicker voted in my the majority of Oregonians. In true liberal form hates it for helping corporations.
• Judge Rules Church Property Subject to Bankruptcy Settlement.
• Lawsuit Could Stall Land-Use Claims.
• Judge Backs Rep. Wirth In Restraining Order Dispute.

National News:

• Washington Senate Race Heats Up.   Christian Republican enters primary again.
• Immigration Debate On Border Fence, Expired Visas:   Misdemeanor vs. Felony.   Oregon's rep. DeFazio:   "They are wasting $2.2 billion of taxpayer money to do something that has not worked anywhere else in the world even where they are willing to shoot the people that go through the fence, Communist China, Morocco," Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said of the 700-mile fence. "It is not going to work here either."
• Senator Chafee Named #1 R.I.N.O.
• Kennedy Touted Anti-Bush Spy Hoax.
• NM Supreme Court Rules State Can Impose Income Taxes On Out-of-State Corporations.
• Schwarzenegger to Raise Minimum Wage.   Olive branch to the unions?
• Guide Dog to Wyden Senate Aide Dies.   Sen. Byrd had objected to the dog being on the Senate floor. Wyden initiated legislation allowing guide dogs in Senate.
• BILL Clinton Says U.S. Ready for Female Pres.
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE FIGHT AHEAD Says Homosexual Congressman Barney Frank.
• Kerry Presidential Campaign Never Ended.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

• Bush Denies Steel Industry Petition to Block China Imports.

International News:

• Palestinians Agree, Wipe Israel Off the Map.
• UN Seeks Interview with Syrian Pres. Over Assassination of Lebanese PM.
• Interview with Hezbollah:   Claim they are not the terrorists the rest of the world says they are. (Hezbollah-Sympathetic report by Kevin Sites for Yahoo News.)
• Female Hostages In Yeman Refuse to Leave Until Males Hostages Also Freed.
• Alleged al-Qaida Aide Said to Fake Death.
• Nepal's Maoists Threaten to Return to Violence, Say Will Break 4-Month Cease-Fire.   UN's Kofi Annan's efforts at truce fail. Ceasefire runs out at midnight 1/2.
• Iraq's Kurdish Pres, Shi'ite PM Meet.   Talk on formation of the country's next gov. as multiple violence continues.
• Warning of 'Anti-Semitic Tsunami.'
• Ramallah, West Bank:   Fatah Party Pressuring Abbas to Delay Elections.   Reflecting growing fears that the Islamic group Hamas will deal the movement a stinging blow in the polls.
• Iran's Pres.:   Europe Completed Holocaust By Creating Israel.
• Russia Accuses Ukraine of Diverting $25-M Worth of Gas.   Ukraine accusing Russia of trying to undermine its economy, calling for resumption of gas price negotiations.
• LIKUD (Netanyahu's party) GAINING STRENGTH IN POLLS.   Closing in on liberals.
• Israel:   Left-Wing Opponent Accuses Netanyahu of Dividing Jerusalem -- Uses Refrain from Past Netanyahu Campaign Against Peres.
• Israel:   Likud Party Agrees Netanyahu Will Decide When Likud Ministers Resign.
• China Shuts Down 598 Sites for Online Smut.
• Tough Anti-Smoking Law Starts Across Spain.